Improvement in magazine fire-arms



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Patented April 1, 18719..

N-PETERS, PHOTD LITKOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C A.,B'URGESS. Magazine Tire-Arm.

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A. BURGESS. Magazine Fire-Arm.

7No. 213,867.- Patented April 1,1879.

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ANDREW BURGESS, OF OWEGO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,8(i7, dated April 1, 1879; application filed J unc 14, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat 1, ANDREW BURGESS, of Owego, Tioga county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in. Magazine Fire-Arms, of which the following, in connection with the drawings herein referred to and forming a part hereof, isa full and complete description.

Thisinvention consists, principally, in adapting a reservoir or magazine base to the side of an ordinary breech-loading arm, so that it shall feed the cartridges automatically into the receiver of the arm when the operator shall desire, and a removable cartridge box or magazine adapted to the above-named magazinebase, together with the general arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter more fully set forth and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal side view of this armwith the reservoir or magazine base attached. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 3/ y. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line zz. Fig. 4 represents the reciprocating carrier. Fig. 5 is a side view of the removable cartridge-box. Fig. 6 represents the front end of the same Fig. 7 is a top or plan view of the arm with base R attached, the position of the feeding cartridge the cartridges but I prefer to place it forward,

to be less in the way of the person operating the arm. This base is provided with a carrier, T, to receive the lower cartridge, as seen in Figs. 1, 7, and 8. This carrier can be readily connected with the reciprocating breech-bolt, as seen in Fig. 1, so as to move a cartridge rearward whenever the breech is opened.

A cover, m,.is fitted to the base R, sliding in suitable grooves. This cover has a knob, m

The bottom of the removable cartridge-box R is similar in form to the top of the stationary base, and is closed by a similar slide, which opens rearward. The projecting base of this box, 1' r, is adapted to slide in the grooves r of the fixed base B.

To operate this magazine, I slide the box It onto the base R, its front end striking the knob m, and at the same time the bent-down front end of the slide m in the cartridge-box is engaged by the rear abutment of the base It, so-that in the act of sliding on the removable cartridge-box both that and the fixed base are opened, to allow a free passage from the cartridge-box to the carrier or to the opening in the receiver, 1 as the case may be. The catch at may be then turned inward to engage the breech-bolt by snapping between the projections n n. Then, moving back the breechbolt, the carrier T partakes of its movement, and pulls a cartridge back to the position shown in Fig. 1, opposite the opening in the receiver, into which it will fall by its own weight, in front of the face of the breechblock, the rod T of the carrier serving to hold the next cartridge up, so that it may not obstrnct the carrier when it sh all return forward.

In closing, the breech drives the cartridge home before it, and the carrier, returning to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, receives another cartridge.

It will be readily seen that by turning the spring-catch 11. away from the breech-bolt, when the carrier is in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the carrier becomes disconnected from the bolt, and, no longer moving with it, the arm operates as an ordinary single breech-loader.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A frame or receiver of a magazine firearm, open at the side, a longitudinally-movin g breech-bolt in said frame, and a longitudinally-reciprocating carrier or cartridge-feeder attached to and moving with said bolt, and arranged at the side of the frame, said carrier being provided with a curved or inclined botto a breech-loading fire-arm, the sliding plate tom to deliver. the cartridge to the receiver, m, to close the bottom of the cartridge-box, all substantially as set forth and described. and the projection m of the sliding plate, in

2. A cartridge-box provided with the rims combination with the fixed base R, as set forth.

or flanges a" 1', adapted to slide into the grooves ANDREW BURGESS. 1", in combination with the sliding cover m, -VVitnesses: substantially as specified. GEO. M. LOGKWOOD,

3. A cartridge-box adapted to be attached ANNIE B. IRISH. 

